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title: Here I met a caravan, and the travellers had just killed their last… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here I met a caravan, and the travellers had just killed their last camel, to obtain water; there was very little for them, and they continued their painful journey beneath the burning sun, and over the hot sands, which stretched before them a vast, boundless desert. Who acts: I, little, travellers,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 88

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Here I met a caravan, and the travellers had just killed their last camel, to obtain water; there was very little for them, and they continued their painful journey beneath the burning sun, and over the hot sands, which stretched before them a vast, boundless desert.

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**Who acts:** I, little, travellers, hot sands · **What happens:** meet, kill, obtain, be, continue, stretch · **To what, where:** caravan, hot sands, travellers, water, painful journey, vast boundless desert

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little, travellers, hot sands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:140:88
# text = Here I met a caravan, and the travellers had just killed their last camel, to obtain water; there was very little for them, and they continued their painful journey beneath the burning sun, and over the hot sands, which stretched before them a vast, boundless desert.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	over	over	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | I | a caravan |  | the hot sands; here |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | the travellers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer camel=Result |
| 3 | **obtain** | to-infinitive |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | little for travellers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **continue** | past | travellers *= traveller* | travellers's painful journey |  |  |  | beneath the burning sun | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 6 | **stretch** | past | the hot sands | a vast boundless desert |  |  | before sands *= sand* |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent desert=Patient |
| 7 | **journey** |  | travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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